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Heathrow Airport reveals record year for passenger numbers – prompting climate warning from ‘speechless’ campaigners | Science, Climate & Tech News
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A record number of people travelled through Heathrow last year – a trend the airport is celebrating but which others say is a cause for alarm. A record 83.9 million flyers made their way through the west London airport last year, its management said. The figure is 4.7 million higher than 2023, and 3 million…
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Pilotless passenger drones and driverless taxis as China pushes boundaries of how we travel | World News
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Have you ever dreamed of flying in an unmanned drone, from city to city? It sounds like the stuff of fantasy, but in China pilotless passenger drones are a reality. You can’t catch them like a taxi just yet. But a company called EHang is waiting for the government to approve a commercial licence to…
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‘World first’ driverless bus service in Scotland axed due to low passenger numbers | UK News
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A driverless bus service thought to be a world first has been cancelled due to a lack of passengers. Stagecoach has run a fleet of self-driving buses on a 14-mile route between Fife and Edinburgh since the launch of the CAVForth project in May last year. However, the service, which still requires two members of…
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Music legend Jean-Michel Jarre becomes first passenger in KleinVision flying car | Science & Tech News
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Jean-Michel Jarre is no stranger to pioneering technology – so it was fitting he has become the first passenger to take off in KleinVision’s flying car. Known for his laser show concerts – watched by millions – he was a frontrunner in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres of music. And as a long-time supporter…
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NASA exploring potential for supersonic passenger jet which could fly from London to New York in 90 minutes | Science & Tech News
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NASA is exploring the potential for a supersonic jet that could take commercial passengers from London to New York in 90 minutes. The US space agency’s Quesst mission was launched in 2016, primarily to design an aircraft with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom: that’s what we hear on the ground when…
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How an airline passenger tracked the ‘wild ride’ of her lost luggage | Science & Tech News
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The chance of your luggage going missing is among the most anxiety-inducing facets of any flight, especially one taken amid the holiday rush. Unfortunately for Valerie Szybala, that’s precisely the scenario that she began 2023 contending with after a domestic US journey from Chicago back to her home in Washington. In a viral Twitter thread…